Gold has climbed sharply since the beginning of the year as the US dollar has pulled back from its late-2016 highs and the US Federal Reserve has exercised characteristic restraint in raising interest rates further after the last rate hike in December...

Increasing political and economic uncertainties under the new Trump Administration, coupled with a sliding US dollar since the beginning of the year, have led to a sharp rise in gold prices for more than a month...

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As the US dollar found some new life on Thursday and US equity markets hovered right around their new all-time highs, gold extended its recent pullback well below the $1200 handle. Since late December, the price of gold had been in a sharp relief rally from its 10-month lows around $1125 support...

Oil prices were initially weaker at the start of the new week, but they have now recovered to trade almost flat at the time of this writing. At the weekend, the OPEC and some producers outside of the group met to discuss the progress of their oil production deal...

President-Elect Donald Trump spoke on Wednesday morning at his first formal press conference since the November elections, and the markets were all ears. Trump covered a lot of ground with multiple topics that included...

The charts tell a clear story of the unrelenting plunge in gold prices since early November. This steep dive has been the result of several related factors, all of which have the potential to extend well into the new year. These largely Trump-driven factors include...

The market is demanding a rate rise and the Fed better deliver it today, for if it doesn’t the bank’s credibly will be severely damaged. There is really no excuse not to do so. Economic data has been improving, financial markets are calm...

As we noted the day before Friday’s US jobs report, only a significantly worse-than-expected reading for November would have likely made the Federal Reserve’s next interest rate decision more difficult...

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I do apologise in advance for bombarding you with lots of commodity reports, but ahead of Friday’s NFP report, the FX markets tend to create lots of false moves, so it is difficult to make much of todays moves...

The new week has started with a bang for the dollar. For the first time since December, the Dollar Index has moved above the psychologically-important 100 level. Investors had waited patiently for the US elections...

In the aftermath of the US election surprise, gold prices have been in a significant retreat as the US dollar has surged, global equity markets have stabilized and strengthened, and interest rates are increasingly expected to rise...

After the weekend surprise FBI announcement that it has found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton in connection with her private email server, financial markets on Monday have clearly begun to price-in a Clinton victory...

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It has been a very good week for the US dollar and a really bad one for the euro and Canadian dollar, among others. The rally has lifted the Dollar Index to its highest level since early February and possibly on course to 100...

With the US Federal Reserve increasingly likely to raise interest rates by the end of the year, non-interest-bearing gold has been running scared as of late. Just as the US dollar should benefit from any Fed rate hike...

North American investors are away in observance of the Labor Day. Understandably, it has been a quiet day in FX, bond and stock markets. But for one particular market, it has been an exceptionally volatile day...

Some of the mainland European stock indices eked out small gains last week despite the falls in US, UK and Japanese stock markets. However, at the start of this new week, global equities have rebounded across the board while the dollar has extended its gains further against a basket of foreign currencies...

The Bank of England’s interest rate cut to a new record low of 0.25%, and other stimulus measures implemented by the UK central bank last week in response to June’s Brexit decision, prompted even more pressure on sterling than had already plagued the struggling currency...

Overnight saw crude oil extend its decline as concerns about oversupply were reinforced although prices have since rebounded ahead of the publication of the official weekly US crude inventories report later this afternoon. In its monthly report...

Crude oil prices continued to fall precipitously on Monday, with the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark for US crude dropping below $40 per barrel for the first time in more than three months. Monday’s fall extends the sharp downtrend that has been in place since the $51-area highs of June...

In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday’s FOMC statement, in which the Fed held rates steady as expected while still acknowledging improved economic conditions, gold spiked down on the mildly hawkish elements of the statement...

As widely expected, the Fed opted once again to refrain from raising interest rates after its two-day meeting concluded on Wednesday afternoon. And as usual, market-watchers dug feverishly into the policy statement searching for any clues as to potential guidance on future rate hikes...

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